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A Weekend Away

It had only taken a few days for Dwight to help Noah get all of his belongings from the dorm and moved into his new apartment. Noah was thrilled with his new home, Beth had made him call his grandparents to check in, and Daryl was relieved that Beth would have someone at home with her when he had to go out of town.

Daryl also felt better about having to leave Emily for this particular weekend – the annual boat weekend "thing". Daryl could not believe that it had been a whole year since Beth had come into his life. A lot sure had changed since then that's for sure. Daryl had become engaged, married, and a father within the past year. It certainly had been an exciting ride – a ride he wouldn't trade for anything else in the world.

Negan had secured Avery from the daycare at the firm to babysit – she'd done an amazing job with Dre and Lila and was always assigned to Emily anytime Daryl brought the baby girl to work. This time however, it would be for the entire weekend. Noah would be there as well if any help were needed – everyone felt better leaving Emily with two trusted adults. Beth was an absolute wreck about leaving her for that long and if Daryl were being completely honest, so was he. However, the two frazzled parents agreed that it was inevitable that they would have to do this and they would both greatly benefit from some one on one time. Their hanky panky activities had taken a serious hit.

Beth had teased Daryl just that morning that if he thought this weekend on the lake with Negan and Lucille counted as their honeymoon, well he had another thing coming. Now that Daryl had spent the day replaying her words in his mind, he'd come to the conclusion that Beth probably wasn't teasing about the honeymoon. The honeymoon they'd never gotten the chance to take. Daryl desperately wanted to take his wife somewhere exciting – just the two of them.

Daryl was trying his hardest to complete the closing paperwork on a project but was having trouble focusing on the task. The fact that he and Beth had been shortchanged in the honeymoon department was weighing on him heavily. Daryl honestly didn't know how they could pull it off. Leaving Emily for two nights was one thing, but for an entire week or more was almost impossible to comprehend. Daryl decided that he'd talk to Negan this weekend and see if he had any insight as to how they could pull a trip off in the very near future.

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Beth had just finished pumping when there was a knock at the door. "Just a minute" Beth called out – she had a fully loaded diaper to dispose of in her left hand, weekender bag in her right. Beth answered the door still holding both items to find the fresh faced babysitter standing there with her own overnight bag.

With the brightest smile Beth could muster, she jerked her head to indicate that Avery should come on in. "Hey Avery, come on in" Beth welcomed. "My hands are kinda full right now."

"Hi Mrs. Dixon" Avery followed Beth into the apartment. "I'm a little early, but I figured you might could use some help getting ready. I'm certain there are some things you probably want to talk about."

Beth tossed the diaper into the trash bag that was sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor waiting for someone to take and shove down the garbage chute – the sooner the better. "Follow me Avery" Beth instructed "I'll show you your room for the weekend. Thank you so much, by the way, for giving up your weekend. There's no way I could leave Emily if it weren't you taking care of her."

"I don't mind one bit Mrs. Dixon. She's an absolute doll" Avery responded. "The apartment looks amazing by the way. Are you enjoying it?"

"Very much so" Beth smiled back at Avery.

Beth told Avery to take a bit to get unpacked. "We've still got plenty of time before Daryl and I are leaving. Let me know when you're settled and we'll go over everything and I'll show you around. Noah will be here all weekend as well. He'll be studying, but will help out with anything if needed. He's to take care of the dog, and he's amazing with Em. Oh, have you met Noah before?"

Avery blushed, but quickly recovered. "Yes. Actually, we had lunch together this week."

"Oh" was Beth's response. Beth spun around and left Avery to unpack.

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"Beth, I can barely hear ya" Daryl said.

"I said I think Noah and Avery have something goin on" Beth hissed into the phone. Beth was sitting on the toilet and having a come apart at the same time.

"Our Noah?" Daryl asked.

"Yes" Beth continued her hissing/whispering.

"And our Avery?" Daryl asked.

"Yes. Yes Daryl" Beth felt out of control and she didn't like feeling out of control. "Our Noah and our Avery! I don't think this is a good idea!"

"You don't think what's a good idea?" Daryl was a little slow on the uptake. "Beth, Babe. I don't really think we can tell Noah who he can date."

Kelly had entered his office to get him to sign off on some papers and could hear Beth's squawking on the other end of the phone and smirked at Daryl. Daryl quickly scribbled his signature and then threw the ink pen at Kelly as his way to tell him to mind his own damn business.

"Leaving Noah and Avery here at the house with our child" Beth responded. "I'm not going. I can't go."

"Beth" Daryl said trying to get a word in.

"You go on and go – tell Negan and Lucille that Em's sick or something. Hell, I don't care what ya tell em – I ain't goin!" Beth had gone down into the rabbit hole apparently.

"Beth, calm down" Daryl tried to be the sane person in this conversation.

"Don't tell me to calm down Daryl Dixon" Beth had graduated from hushed hissing and whispering to full fledge yelling.

"Beth" Daryl sighed. "I'll be home in thirty minutes. We're are leaving in two hours. I expect you to be ready – don't make us late for this same event again." And then Daryl hung up on his wife. Oh, Daryl knew he was going to catch hell for it later, but he'd deal with it when the time came.

Beth sat there on her throne of sorts, panties around her ankles, and shocked as hell. "That son of a bitch" she mumbled to herself. "That son of a bitch hung up on me."

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Two hours later and Daryl Dixon was tossing their bags into the back of his car. "Get in Beth" Daryl snapped. "I don't know why in the hell every time we have somewhere to be, you have some kind of fit." Daryl did not miss the glare Beth threw at him as he helped her into the front seat. They made it halfway down to Lakeshore Drive before Beth spoke.

"I'm sorry Daryl" Beth apologized and then let out a little snort. "I just couldn't help but picture Noah and Avery getting it on in the middle of our living room floor while Em screamed her head off needing attention."

"Stop" Daryl told her as he now had the same image in his head. "I had a talk with Noah." Daryl had a smirk on his face.

Beth realized how quickly she let the whole situation hijack her emotions. "When did you have a chance to do that? And what on earth did you say?"

"I cornered him at the trash chute in the hallway" Daryl said. "Told him he could chase any pussy he wanted on his own time, but Em played second fiddle to no one."

Beth gasped, "Daryl, you did not say such a thing!"

"Sure as hell did" Daryl confessed. "Told him I didn't mind to castrate him if it became necessary."

The car grew quiet again, but not for long because neither could hold back the laughter at the thought of Noah now trying to fight off Avery all weekend long in fear that Daryl would emasculate him Sunday evening.

Daryl looked over at Beth and quickly realized that he hadn't told her how incredibly beautiful she was today. She was wearing a pale yellow halter type sundress. The fact that she had not completely regained her pre pregnancy body only added to her hotness factor. Her boobs were incredible and the "pudge factor" as Beth referred to it had Daryl getting all kinds of torn up.

"You look amazing Beth" he pulled her hand to him for a kiss.

"Thank you" Beth smiled at him. "I really wish I could drop about fifteen or twenty more pounds."

"Nu uh" Daryl told her as he stared into her eyes. "You're perfect Beth, absolutely perfect. I'm not letting you outta my sight tonight Darlin."

"You're not, huh?" Beth teased. "Well, that's good. Ya know, just in case that Spencer dude is here again."

"Ugh" Daryl grunted. "That dumbass better stay the fuck away."